Higher Education, Pedagogy and Social Justice

Chapter 1. Introduction: Social justice talk and social justice practice in the contemporary university; Susan Goodwin and Helen Proctor.- SECTION I. Politics and perspectives.- Chapter 2. Thoughts on social justice and universities; Raewyn Connell.- Chapter 3. On settler notions of social justice: The importance of disrupting and displacing colonising narratives; Sheelagh Daniels-Mayes, Valerie Harwood and Nyssa Murray.- Chapter 4. Making worlds, making justice and the responsibility to live justly on stolen land; Debra Hayes.- Chapter 5. Social justice politics: Care as democracy and resistance; Donna Baines.- Chapter 6. Pursuing a social justice agenda for early childhood education and care: Interrogating marketisation hegemony in the academy; Marianne Fenech.- Chapter 7. Aboriginal voices: Social justice and transforming aboriginal education; Kevin Lowe and Cathie Burgess.- SECTION II. Practices and pedagogies.- Chapter 8. When 'participation' is not enough: Social justice practices in mental health and psychiatric hegemony; Emma Tseris.- Chapter 9. Teaching undergraduate comparative and international education: Pedagogy, social justice and global issues in education; Alexandra McCormick and Matthew A.M. Thomas.- Chapter 10. 'Teaching' social justice through community-embedded learnign; Margot Rawsthorne.- Chapter 11. Little ego deaths in the social justice classroom: An existential perspective on student resistance; Remy Yi Siang Low.- Chapter 12. Using drama pedagogy to understand human rights and the law; Alison Grove O'Grady.- Chapter 13. Social justice and students with intellectual disability: Inclusive higher education practices; Michelle L. Bonati.- Chapter 14. Frameworks for social justice in teacher education: Moments of restless sympathy; Kelly Freebody

Kelly Freebody is Associate Professor in Drama Education at The University of Sydney, Australia. Her teaching and research focuses on drama, social justice, critical pedagogy and school-community relationships.

Susan Goodwin is Professor of Policy Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia. Her research focuses on social policy, community capacity building and gender issues and she contributes to social policy development at local, national and international levels.
Helen Proctor is Associate Professor in History and Education at The University of Sydney, Australia. Her research focuses on how educational institutions shape social and cultural life within and beyond their material boundaries.